{"id":5507,"date":"2009-11-01T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T18:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=5507"},"modified":"2009-11-01T13:50:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T18:50:12","slug":"seeing-the-world-through-your-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=5507","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the world through your eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember sleeping near my niece&#8217;s crib when she was hooked to a heart monitor &#8211; she was premature to say the least. When it would go off like a siren in the night, my heart would stop and I&#8217;d get up and walk with her in my arms trying to calm her down. She was as tiny as a frog when she was born. I thought then she had set the bar high for overcoming obstacles, but life had a way of intervening again and again with even greater challenges. As I sat last night listening to a parent say &#8220;enough with kids,&#8221; &#8220;enough with them not getting their act together,&#8221; I thought of Miracle Baby constantly exceeding everyone&#8217;s expectations.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine in California still quotes my niece&#8217;s report card in grade school that stated, &#8220;Lexi is a friend to all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well dear readers, little Lexi, born 1 lb 9 oz, is all grown up &#8211; and still raising the <a href=\"http:\/\/art.sewanee.edu\/lnamer\/portfolios\/art.sewanee.edu\/lnamer\/files\/folios\/peru\/index.html\">bar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember sleeping near my niece&#8217;s crib when she was hooked to a heart monitor &#8211; she was premature to say the least. When it would go off like a siren in the night, my heart would stop and I&#8217;d get up and walk with her in my arms trying to calm her down. She was as tiny as a frog when she was born. I thought then she had set the bar high for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-1qP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5508,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions\/5508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}